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In regards to creation, A thought about large numbers and the scale of the universe
A "Googol", of which the company gets its name, is a one followed by 100 zeros. This can be written out as
"10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,00 0,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000"
This number alone is so incredibly massive that human brains cannot comprehend its size. The number of atoms that make up the universe is a fraction of a googol.
The "googolplex" is a one followed by a googol zeros. This number is so uncomprehendingly large that simply imagining what it would look like would be impossible. This is why.
Using 12 pt Times New Roman font, a "0" has the size of .125 inches. A googol zeros is as long as 1.25 *1099 inches, 1.0416667 *1098 feet, 1.9728535 *1094 miles, 2.1223564 *1086 astronomical units (The length from the Earth to the Sun), or 3.3560493 *1081 light years.
This number, when written out on standard paper, could circle the Earth 7.9227884 *1089 times, creating a wall so tall that we would not be able to see the top of it. In fact, this wall would be 8.5085661 *1070 lightyears tall, expanding far out past the radius of our observable universe. This number could actually circle our observable universe 1.1687786 *1070 times or, when filling a full piece of paper with only zeros, cover the entire surface area of our visible universe 2.9398387 *1057 times.
When this number is written in a straight line away from us, all protons in our universe will have decayed by the time the light from the last zero in the googolplex will have reached us.
A googolplex is so massively large that trying to imagine what it even looks like is impossible, and yet, when compared to infinity, it is next to nothing.
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In regards to creation, A thought about large numbers and the scale of the universe
A "Googol", of which the company gets its name, is a one followed by 100 zeros. This can be written out as
"10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,00 0,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000"
This number alone is so incredibly massive that human brains cannot comprehend its size. The number of atoms that make up the universe is a fraction of a googol.
The "googolplex" is a one followed by a googol zeros. This number is so uncomprehendingly large that simply imagining what it would look like would be impossible. This is why.
Using 12 pt Times New Roman font, a "0" has the size of .125 inches. A googol zeros is as long as 1.25 *1099 inches, 1.0416667 *1098 feet, 1.9728535 *1094 miles, 2.1223564 *1086 astronomical units (The length from the Earth to the Sun), or 3.3560493 *1081 light years.
This number, when written out on standard paper, could circle the Earth 7.9227884 *1089 times, creating a wall so tall that we would not be able to see the top of it. In fact, this wall would be 8.5085661 *1070 lightyears tall, expanding far out past the radius of our observable universe. This number could actually circle our observable universe 1.1687786 *1070 times or, when filling a full piece of paper with only zeros, cover the entire surface area of our visible universe 2.9398387 *1057 times.
When this number is written in a straight line away from us, all protons in our universe will have decayed by the time the light from the last zero in the googolplex will have reached us.
A googolplex is so massively large that trying to imagine what it even looks like is impossible, and yet, when compared to infinity, it is next to nothing.
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